1 Kings 22:36
Good News Translation
Near sunset the order went out through the Israelite ranks: "Each of you go back to your own country and city!"

New Revised Standard Version
Then about sunset a shout went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

Contemporary English Version
As the sun was going down, someone in Israel's army shouted to the others, "Retreat! Go back home!"

New American Bible
At sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, every man to his land!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.

there went

1 Kings 22:17,31 And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master: let every man of them return to his house in peace. . . .

1 Kings 12:16 Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

2 Kings 14:12 And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.

Every man

1 Kings 12:24 Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.

Judges 7:7,8 And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place. . . .

Judges 21:24 The children of Israel also returned by their tribes, and families, to their dwellings.

1 Samuel 4:10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

2 Samuel 19:8 Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Kings 14:12 And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.

Context
Ahab's Defeat and Death
35And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. 36And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.37And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria.…
Cross References
1 Kings 22:35
And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

1 Kings 22:37
And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria.

2 Kings 14:12
And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.

1 Kings 22:35
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